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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

AZMEX ELECTION SPECIAL 22-4-2012

AZMEX ELECTION SPECIAL 22 APR 2012

Note: Will try to cover July presidential election in Mexico more. To those of us on the border, it could be as important as election in U.S. A key question, should the PRI regain the presidency, will the drug cartels be satisfied to be junior partners again? Or will they be equal partners, or even the partnership be reversed?

A very interesting defection here. Sicila pretty much on target about PRI. Wrong, of course, about far left candidate AMLO (Lopez Obrador) Who is trying to get a meeting with him according to media reports.

Several recent polls have EPN in first, with AMLO and then JVM far behind. Average = 50%, 28% & 25%. Not good, but looks like people starting to pay attention. Northern Mexico led the way in the defeat of the PRI 12 years ago.

The return of the PRI to the presidency, with Enrique Peña Nieto, would be the worst thing that could happen to Mexico, it would return the worst practices they ruled for 70 years, said the poet Javier Sicilia, leader of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity.

The PRI is the worst of all candidates seeking to succeed Felipe Calderon Hinojosa he said at the start of the National Gathering for Peace with Justice and Dignity, which ends Sunday.

Peña Nieto (EPN) does not even know we exist, not interested in talking to us, is a return to the worst if the country is returning PRI to power, is the return of Salinas, return to the disregard of the citizens, the return to legalization of crime in its broadest sense, he said.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), however, is the best, the best face, but unfortunately not a matter of people, is a matter of structures and those who believe that structure and invented it ... coming from the colonial times, but is called the PRI, and Peña Nieto represents that.

Josefina Vazquez Mota (JVM), he continued, is a good woman, an honest woman, the problem is the structure, because they protect their own criminals, patrimonial structures are what does this mean?: Using the assets of the nation and the nation itself for personal gain, that's the big problem. I wish it were a matter of people, the problem is a matter of structures.

But as good people do not act accordingly to transform state structures, because we will not get out, who comes will be the choice of shame, but it will be worse with Peña Nieto, anyone will be a disaster, but Peña Nieto will be worse, he concluded.

He called voting for the lesser evil, but reiterated that their vote will be blank because the parties and candidates are ignoring the victims of the war against organized crime.

The father of Juan Francisco the young Sicilia found finalized with six others in a car on March 28, 2011 - said he expected the death of more than 60,000 people left by the war on crime, Felipe Calderon will at the end of his term with a great sense of guilt (...), that you desire: a coincidence of heartache for their irresponsibility and a request for forgiveness can heal his soul and conscience.

In the match for peace involving social organizations, human rights, victims of violence and their families. The meeting takes place at the Joan of Arc school in this city.

The government of Felipe Calderón and Members were asked to fulfill their promise to pass the law for victims of the war on organized crime in order to operate the procurement of services to victims.

This is not to promote a national security law that serves only to cause pain and death, they said, because it seems that both the president and legislators only have imagination for violence.

La Jornada

Note: A campaign sample

Posted April 22, 2012, 1:48 a.m.DURING HER VISIT TO CITY OF OBREGON, SONORADelivered Sonora to Josefina

The candidate for President of the Republic Josefina Vazquez Mota was accompanied by the state governor Guillermo Padres Elias

Sonora gave Josefina Vazquez Mota, who made history in Cajeme to collect about 30,000 people in his tour of this county, where she made clear that the time has come from the state to endorse the first of July, the Presidency of the Republic for the National Action Party. (PAN)

And, she said, can not be allowed to return those who want to return and with the support of all in Sonora that will not happen.

"That's what I came to Sonora, because Sonora is a land of brave people, because Sonora has written pages of freedom and democracy and we can say with certainty to feel their souls, to feel their breath, as he was going to tell me, Josefina, Sonora is yours, because I'm from Sonora, I am for Sonora and of course we will achieve this victory together, the president of Mexico to serve the citizens. "

So the flagship PAN was clear and committed to first of all, once she assumes the presidency, there will be a Mexico without impunity, corruption, where the jurisdiction is over all politicians without exception, more support for people more scholarships, more kindergartens and of course, to give the place it deserves to education and that is why she offered her full support for Educational Transformation led by Governor Guillermo Padres.

"We will achieve coverage for the state high school for all young people in 2018 and we will support the Governor father to build more universities, more technology, we will do together, I want you to have full-time school from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm for children to attend school and learn effectively and make it different, we will also encourage reading. "

Similarly and using the stage in Cajeme representing the PAN standard bearer promised that once and for all open and run the fiscal area.And because Sonora has given life to their fields to Mexico and other countries, said she would work to arrive on time and without intermediate supports it, to make these lands most productive in the country.

"I come before you, not a sign in front of a notary, because even those who sign in front of notary does not want to say that meeting, I come by this different for a Mexico ] where re-assert the word, that Mexico where the word is promised, and is satisfied, because I want different Mexico today I come to Sonora, Ciudad Obregon to give you my word that is word of a woman, I will keep our promise to Sonora. "

For his part, Governor Guillermo Padres made it clear that he has no doubt Sonora anyone who is a land of PAN and in 2000 and won the state Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón in 2006, now will win for Josefina Vazquez Mota.

And the PAN said Sonora will defend these triumphs and achievements since the PAN government came 12 years ago can now enjoy Sonorans and all Mexicans.

"More roads, more housing and we will defend and we will not let nobody take what we won for our children and for Sonora, we will win because the PAN is going better, here in Sonora since joining the PAN we have for our children free uniforms, school fees zero, free transport and thanks to the governments of National Action Party. "

Padres Elias said that for these reasons and more, the Sonoran we must defend our land and Mexico and right now we are called to respond to the country as we face an imminent risk in the country since 70 years of bad governments want to return to Mexico .

"70 years of corruption, plunder, 70 years of devaluations, lies and backwardness to Mexico. I want to say because if they kidding who now tell us who represent the worst of the PRI of the past, hiding, skin down this wolf in sheep clothing and say, we learned, as we change, when someone walks like a duck, does like a duck, you are a duck, are the same thieves always, it is not changed. "